Chanced Whim

Summary: It was meant as just a little dare, but she couldn't help it. Kagome took it one step farther. Sitting at her desk, her closest friend since childhood comes in and on a whim, she calls him over for a game. "I dare you to kiss the next person who walks through that door." She believed in fate, he believed in coincidence, their unwilling victim believed in the unpredictable...in the end...it was all just a Chanced Whim.

Anime/Manga: InuYasha/Death Note

Couple: Matt/Mello and Kagome/Near

Genre: Romance

Rated: M

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I Dare You

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'What the hell!' Kagome glanced at the blue screen of death that inhabited her monitor before it shut off for the third time since she got on. Looking over her screen to the Auburn/Red haired young man in the cubicle in front of hers, she sighed and got up. He laughed and sat down, his green eyes held too much humor in her opinion. He had been waiting for her to ask for his help since she first cursed her luck with the blue screen that had made her morning more difficult than it should have been. "Stop laughing!" She snapped.

"Right, right." He tapped his fingers quickly and fluidly against her keyboard as if it were only second nature to him. With him, it probably was.

"Matt, Kagome, how is that new layout coming along?"

Kagome was the eyes; she looked for Matt and herself while he continued pecking at her keyboard. "The rough draft is finished; we wanted to run it by you after your eight o'clock, then go ahead and follow it up with Johnson & Johnson before drawing up the final and getting the cameras and other security precautions set up in their new building."

"Good, good, wonderful! I will see you at ten then. Be there at exactly ten. I detest the tardy."

"We are aware sir. Have a lovely day." She watched her boss leave, his crimped black hair in a high ponytail. His crimson eyes lingered on one of the passing woman who worked there.

"I detest the tardy~" Matt mocked in a highly annoying tone.

"He doesn't sound like that." Kagome laughed as he turned and smiled.

"Close enough," He stood and made his way back to his cubicle where he grabbed a brown hollow tube with white caps on both ends. Inside were the rough drafts of the Johnson & Johnson Company's newest buildings layout plans for security. "That man hates everything unless it's wearing a short tight skirt and has a pair of double D's."

"You know that isn't true." Kagome said as she took the tube from him.

"Yeah...your right. He'll take C's too."

She laughed before getting back to work. "You're a real piece of work Mattie. You are a genius technician and a radical hi-tech security hacker. It amazes me that you aren't doing something better with your skills."

"You know what amazes me?"

She moved so that she could look around the divider that separated their cubicles, looking him in the eyes when he spoke.

"The fact that you actually used the word radical…what is that, like a 1960's – 1970's term. Up there with, Far Out, Gnarly and Razz."

"...are you really commenting on my grammar? What about you, pwned? By any chance, were you aware that the word you so frequently use was a mistake that someone made when they tried typing 'owned' too quickly?"

"Of course I knew that; doesn't make the word any less cool."

"...yes...actually it does."

"Jealous much."

"Of what?" Kagome rolled her chair to his desk.

"I have a life and you don't."

"That has nothing to do with grammar, also, I wouldn't consider a virtual game world a life. Last I checked we don't get 'res'."

"Ha, tell that to the damn stray cat that's still kickin' outside my apartment window."

"It's still alive?"

"I swear that thing has some demonic offspring growing inside it that keeps it going."

"...right," She rolled back to her desk and got started on her work. The login screen popped up with the same thing as always, User Name and Password. 'Kagome_Higurashi' she typed in the box for her User Name, 'g0shinb0ku' was the password she used, substituting zeros with her o's.

"We have a trainee coming later." Matt said from his side.

"Who's charge?" Kagome asked, pulling up her Outlook.

"…hm, I think yours. It's a girl, twenty four I think. You'll meet her at the lobby…oooh..."

"Hm? What 'oooh'?" She looked over her divider at Matt once again.

"According to this, you need to be their in negative 20 minutes."

"Negative…AH! I'm late?" She ran out of the cubicles and made her way down the steps of the four floor building.

Matt smiled and looked down at the sticky note then frowned. "Oh...this is for tomorrow..." He gave a silly grin before placing the sticky on her monitor and sneaking off to the break room.

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Kagome mentally growled at Matt who had yet to return. She would see him soon enough but by the point she'll have to be all sunshine and daisies. She glanced at the time and practically growled.

"Heh, Kagome..."

She glared coldly as Matt made his way towards her cubical.

"You know it was an accident. I didn't mean to make you run down all that way...I misread it." He pouted.

"Humph," She glared. Staring a few minutes longer, she sighed and watched him as he grinned and pulled her up. "I forgive you, but I want to get back at you somehow."

"But I didn't do it on purpose! Have a heart!"

She glared, "No, my feet hurt from all that running and all those stairs! The elevator is out of order!"

He flinched back.

"Hmm..." She thought for a second, "How about..."

"How about you think of something during the meeting, we have to go..." He prayed that during the meeting she would forget all need of harming him...physically, mentally or otherwise.

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She did think, all through the meeting Kagome thought and finally, finally after talking with her boss, Johnson & Johnson, a few clients and her mother, of course, she thought up the perfect punishment.

"Matt!"

Matt froze mid-step and turned to Kagome who sat at her cubicle still. He slowly placed his foot down and made his way towards her. "Yeah? What's up?"

"I changed my mind!"

"...on getting back at me!"

"No you dork! I don't want to just get back at you, I want to play a game with you! Dare!"

"You mean...Truth or Dare?" He asked hopeful.

"Of course I don't! I Dare You...to kiss the next person that walks through that door!"

"...oh, that's it?" He sighed, "Alright," He sat down on her desk and waited, watched and waited, patiently waiting for his victim to step through the elevator doors. They did...

Kagome's own heart skipped at the sight; a beautiful blonde in a black long sleeve sweater that fit her form perfectly, and a pair of black paints. She wore black heeled boots and a black beret from a Paris designer line. A pair of black shades covered her eyes, but her smooth complexion could be seen contrasting with the black she wore.

Kagome watched Matt walk practically blind to the lady, when something caught her attention or rather, a lack of something..."Oh no..."

"Hi," She could hear Matt all the way from where she sat; knowing what would happen if he kissed this person...well...it was definitely payback. He leaned forward as the blonde said 'hi' and the deed was done. Matt had successfully kissed the person...and Kagome was laughing her ass off!

A grunt sounded and Kagome looked to see that Matt was kneeling with a knee against his gut. 'Ouch!' She moved to the blonde and bowed apologetically, "I am so sorry, you probably should have let someone walk out before you. It was my fault, a dare."

The blonde was blushing furiously, "What the hell did you dare him to do?"

"Ah...kiss the next person that walked in. Again, I am so sorry, sir."

Matt's ear twitched, "...sir?" He grunted curiously. "SIR?"

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